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Pastor’s Pondering- Plan for Lent

Pastor's Ponderings
grassroots, Lent, Lenten calendar, Lenten devotions, Peace in Ukraine, UMCOR
Dear Glen Mar friends As Lent begins I want to thank Pastor Melaina for her powerful message on Sunday. I had the honor of teaching confirmation class at 9:30, where the topic was “grace” and also “items in our toolbox that help us interpret Scripture/know what God wants us to do  (aka the Wesleyan Quadrilateral). Our Lenten series is called…
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God’s Labor

Pastor's Ponderings
collection, Hurley, UMCOR

Dear Glen Mar,
It’s Labor Day weekend! It has me thinking about “God at work.”: “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.” (Gen. 1:31). I like picturing God in a yellow hardhat, construction plans in hand, with a ruler, a “plumb line” (see the Book of Amos), a pencil behind the Divine Ear. I see a twinkle in God’s eye, and a concentrated look, that feeling of flow, where time stops. I hear God whistling softly, sanding sharp corners and making angles true.

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